My wife (German in nature) and I got into this discussion last night, with the new upcoming 'rules'. The free tests? They end 11 October. What happens after that point is generally unknown.
So, some facts:
1. The free tests were never free....the government paid a commercial group 18 Euro per test. You could have walked in four or five times a week....to be tested, and 18 Euro would have been spent each time.
2. The free test kits? Well....maybe back in the fall of 2020, they were costing around 10 Euro, but if you step into a grocery today....they are priced near 2.99 Euro. Same kit used at the test center....as you'd buy at the grocery (exactly same type).
3. The only deal of the free testing? You got an email fifteen to thirty minutes later, from the 'kids' running the operation, that seemed official. I could have done the test myself, but it would not have been deemed official.
The wife and I both came to agree.....if you test less....you probably will lessen your statistical number a good bit. A guy will have two symptoms which are similar to a cold, and just believe it's a cold....without paying the 18 Euro fee.
Will the fee lessen? I have very little doubt that the 18 Euro current fee will drop....maybe even down to seven to eight Euro. The government at some point....will likely admit that they were seriously overpaying the cost.
Is the government already talking about a total new model for the incidence rate? Well....yeah, that got brought up around ten days ago, and it appears that some new model will be invented by 11 October (when the free test gimmick ends).
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